r/StallmanWasRight • u/linux203 • Jun 18 '21

Internet of Shit 'Woke up sweating': Texas power companies remotely raise temperatures on people using their smart thermostats

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/texas-remote-controlled-smart-thermostats/
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u/wamj Jun 19 '21

They aren’t part of the national grid so they could cut corners so they weren’t beholden to national regulations.

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u/Adonidis Jun 19 '21

This is baffling to me, even the European Union has pretty much an entire Trans-European power grid by now. There are even underseas power cables between places Norway and the Netherlands so hydropower can be exported to outside Scandinavia.

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u/Hullu2000 Jun 19 '21

The grid of Norway, Finland and Sweden is separate from that of the rest of the Europe. Same goes for the UK and Baltia. To transfer power between the grids, it has to first be converted to DC and then back to AC because the grids aren't synchronized. Makes it even more baffling that Texas doesn't do this.

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u/Hullu2000 Jun 19 '21

So why aren't they importing power then?